The rising hysteria about Russia is best understood as fulfilling two needs for Official Washington: the Military Industrial Complexs transitioning from the war on terror to a more lucrative new cold war and blunting the threat that a President Trump poses to the neoconservative/liberal-interv foreign-policy establishment.
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/01/05/very-powerful-people-in-the-u-s-government-want-war-this-is-their-sales-pitch/